Biggest issue is my laptop is becoming a toaster and a 10hr rated battery (when new ) only lasts 30 mins on this version. Please review the overheating posts on the forum.
However the wallpaper and default settings are good. I will check if the shutdown corruption bug reappears like RC

OK shutdown corruption bug has not occurred,

And the kill X keys Ctrl-Alt-Backspace drops to commandline, without automagically restarting X works again

So I can reboot without corrupting savefile, when the touchpad is frozen at boot which is 75% of the time.

Due to the overheating even with 'governers on', and unfixed frozen mouse issue, I'll have to pass on this version.

Exceptionally long boot-up time >2mins. Otherwise, agree with James (my XP2800clockedXP3000) - everything works sound, video, connection, Flash OOTB - oh yes, and Opera (from DEB-Other)! Would be nice to have a better selection of wallpapers, like Slacko, eg bring back guy-on-a-bike, NASA Earth-rise, maybe some of the excellent ones used by James/Bill?

Do I understand correctly that there is no more "Retro" Precise Puppy? That is those of us on non PAE hardware have just been dropped? Well told that there might be a release sometime by somebody (no offence but not an"Official" release) that might be a Precise based Puppy based on 5.5 with non-PAE kernel? But even that might not happen?

I downloaded to test 5.4.93 RetroPrecise (5.5 beta with devx fortunately) and have been so pleased with it it has already become my normally booted puppy. I suppose I can just carry on using it without problem as I can (and have) update any components as I need to.

I would however ask for a reconsideration of the decision not to release a 5.5 RetroPrecise puppy given that one has been previously available. There are more and later machines with no PAE support than is thought.

Or perhaps I just need some clarification/timescales on the future for non-PAE Precise users to put my mind at rest?

Billtoo: what sort of boot times are you getting on single core machines? or, indeed, multiple cores ones? Notice any significant increase from earlier releases?

Hi Sage:
On the single core netbook:
The normal 5.4.95rc live dvd takes 1:20 to get to the desktop with
"puppy pfix=ram"
The normal 5.5 live dvd with "puppy pfix=ram" takes 1:15 to get to the desktop.
The frugal install of the remastered 5.5 precise (700+ mb iso) from a class 10
SDHC card takes 2:45,it has a 1.25gb savefile as well.

I have just installed this version of Puppy and am very excited about how good the PPM is. I asked it to install mythtv-frontend and it did! I noticed 92 dependencies before it moved on to the next screen. It downloaded them in three stages (after a download session, it then came up with a box with dependencies in, asking to choose the source and download - three times) and installed them all and it put a menu entry in Multimedia. That is impressive.

The only slight hang up was on group membership since I was not a member of mythtv. It kept asking if I wanted to join the group, stating that I needed sudo permission but initially did not give it to me. I am not sure how I gained the right. I just started copying permissions lines that mentioned the user name from a Mythbuntu /etc/group file to the one in Puppy changing the user name to root and suddenly it asked me if I wanted to proceed anyhow.

It picked up a backend without me doing anything and can play the recordings. I had to use the Mythbuntu Audio Setup to select the right driver.

I have done this on a Single Core Intel Atom board (1600MHz) with 1 GB of RAM

Do I understand correctly that there is no more "Retro" Precise Puppy? That is those of us on non PAE hardware have just been dropped? Well told that there might be a release sometime by somebody (no offence but not an"Official" release) that might be a Precise based Puppy based on 5.5 with non-PAE kernel? But even that might not happen?

I downloaded to test 5.4.93 RetroPrecise (5.5 beta with devx fortunately) and have been so pleased with it it has already become my normally booted puppy. I suppose I can just carry on using it without problem as I can (and have) update any components as I need to.

I would however ask for a reconsideration of the decision not to release a 5.5 RetroPrecise puppy given that one has been previously available. There are more and later machines with no PAE support than is thought.

Or perhaps I just need some clarification/timescales on the future for non-PAE Precise users to put my mind at rest?

looking into battery and laptop overheating issue with PP5.5 The kernel changed its methods of dealing with these areas but the older methods supporting such has not made the changes needed.
It maybe a X windows driver issue, since my laptop governors was turned on.
Battery was shown to be defective (only 8% of capacity left ) when I booted a new version of Fuduntu (laptop tweaked fedora-ubuntu hybrid release)

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